"to be released as the month of December 2016 drew to a close. On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library, including ""The Flying Nun."" They re-released the first and second seasons in a 2-season combo pack DVD on October 7, 2014. The Flying Nun The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book ""The Fifteenth Pelican,"" written by Tere Rios. It starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille. The series originally ran on ABC from"
"The Flying Girl The Flying Girl is a novel written by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. It was first published in 1911. In the book, Baum pursued an innovative blending of genres to create a feminist adventure melodrama. The book was followed by a sequel, The Flying Girl and Her Chum, published the next year, 1912. Both books were illustrated by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens, the artist who also illustrated Baum's ""Annabel"" and ""Phoebe Daring"" in 1912. As with Baum's other books for girls, these two novels were published under the pseudonym ""Edith Van Dyne."" Baum lived during"
"was issued by Hungry Tiger Press in a separate edition the same year, with Nuyttens's original pictures. The Flying Girl The Flying Girl is a novel written by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. It was first published in 1911. In the book, Baum pursued an innovative blending of genres to create a feminist adventure melodrama. The book was followed by a sequel, The Flying Girl and Her Chum, published the next year, 1912. Both books were illustrated by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens, the artist who also illustrated Baum's ""Annabel"" and ""Phoebe Daring"" in 1912. As with Baum's other"
"The Flying Trunk ""The Flying Trunk"" (""Den flyvende Kuffert"") is a fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young man who has a flying trunk that carries him to Turkey where he visits the Sultan's daughter. The tale was first published 1839. A young man squanders his inheritance until he has nothing left but a few shillings, a pair of slippers, and an old dressing-gown. A friend sends him a trunk with directions to pack up and be off. Having nothing to pack, he gets into the trunk himself. The trunk is enchanted and"
"of flight"". The critic commended the use of symbology, but wrote that ""the immediate value and appeal of the book lies not there, but rather in the spiritual message it carries for each reader"". The Steep Ascent The Steep Ascent is a 1944 novella by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It follows a pregnant woman and her pilot husband as they fly from England over France and the Alps to Italy. The book was published in March 1944. The early reviews were negative, comparing the novel unfavorably to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Later reviews were more positive and the book"
"The Flying Inn The Flying Inn is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. It is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of ""Progressive"" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks ""under a medical certificate"". The plot centres on the adventures of Humphrey Pumph (see also Humphrey Pump) and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt"
"Flying Blind (novel) Flying Blind is a mystery novel by Max Allan Collins that was first published in 1999. The book was part of Collins' ongoing series of novels featuring private detective Nathan Heller. In the Heller series, the lead character is frequently featured interacting with historical figures of the 1930s and 1940. In ""Flying Blind"", set in the mid-1930s, Heller is hired by book publisher and publicist George P. Putnam to act as a bodyguard for his wife, strong-willed celebrity aviator Amelia Earhart, and at the same time investigate who might be sending her threatening letters. Heller is initially"
"The Flight Engineer The Flight Engineer is a trilogy of science-fiction novels by S. M. Stirling and James Doohan and published by Baen Books. It consists of The Rising (published in 1996), The Privateer (1999) and The Independent Command (2000). ""The Rising"" begins in media res during a conflict between two groups, the Commonwealth and an extremist religious group the Mission Of Life Lived In Ecclesia (commonly referred to as ""Mollies"") and the Mollies' allies, an alien species known as the Fibians. The basis of the conflict is that the Mollies settled an otherwise worthless sector of the galaxy, later"
"as a part of ""Fairy Tales. 1850."" (""Eventyr. 1850.""), and again 15 December 1862 as a part of ""Fairy Tales and Stories. First Volume. 1862."" (""Eventyr og Historier. Første Bind. 1862.""). The Flying Trunk ""The Flying Trunk"" (""Den flyvende Kuffert"") is a fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young man who has a flying trunk that carries him to Turkey where he visits the Sultan's daughter. The tale was first published 1839. A young man squanders his inheritance until he has nothing left but a few shillings, a pair of slippers, and an"
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (original title in , literally, ""the air castle that was blown up"") is the third novel in the best-selling ""Millennium"" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published in Swedish in 2007; in English, in the UK, in October 2009; and in the US and Canada on 25 May 2010. The first three novels in the series, ""The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"" (2005), ""The Girl Who Played with Fire"" (2006), and ""The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" were written by Stieg Larsson before"
"Fly-by-Night (Peyton novel) Fly-by-Night is a children's novel by K. M. Peyton originally published by Oxford University Press in October 1968. It is about an 11-year-old girl, Ruth Hollis, who buys a pony called Fly for £40 from a dealer. The low price reflects his lack of training. She expands his name to Fly-by-Night and attempts to train him herself without much success. She then joins a pony club to learn more about horses. A rivalry develops between Ruth and another girl, Pearl, who owns a pedigree Arabian mare named Milky Way. Ruth gets help from Peter, a runaway boy"
"she seems to have departed from orthodoxy. ""Eagles' Wings to the Higher Places"" has been said to support non-orthodox beliefs in pantheism, universalism, and gnosticism. ""Unveiled Glory"" tells of how she came to believe in Universal reconciliation. Hannah Hurnard Hannah Hurnard (1905–90) is a 20th-century Christian author, best known for her allegorical novel, ""Hinds' Feet on High Places"". Hurnard was born in 1905 in Colchester, England, to Quaker parents. She graduated from Ridgelands Bible College in 1926. In 1932 she became an independent missionary, moving to Haifa, Palestine. Her work in Palestine and later Israel lasted 50 years, although she"
"A Flight of Pigeons A Flight of Pigeons is a novella by Indian author, Ruskin Bond. The story is set in 1857, and is about Ruth Labadoor and her family (who are British) who take help of Hindus and Muslims to reach their relatives when the family's patriarch is killed in a church by the Indian rebels. The novella is a mix of fiction and non fiction and was adapted into a film in 1978 called ""Junoon"" by Shyam Benegal, starring Shashi Kapoor, his wife Jennifer Kendal, and Nafisa Ali. The Novella starts with the death of the father of"
"The Steep Ascent The Steep Ascent is a 1944 novella by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It follows a pregnant woman and her pilot husband as they fly from England over France and the Alps to Italy. The book was published in March 1944. The early reviews were negative, comparing the novel unfavorably to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Later reviews were more positive and the book went on to sell well. ""Kirkus Reviews"" wrote that ""the literature of flight has no more gifted contributor than Anne Morrow Lindbergh"", and that ""her prose style has a rhythm tuned to the rhythm"
"The book was the basis of a 1965 film starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, and Hardy Krüger. The 2004 remake featuring Dennis Quaid was also based on the novel, although it was re-located to the Gobi Desert in Asia. The Flight of the Phoenix The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. The book was the basis for the 1965 film ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" starring James Stewart and the 2004 remake"
"The Flying Classroom The Flying Classroom (German: ""Das fliegende Klassenzimmer"") is a 1933 novel for children written by the German writer Erich Kästner. In the book Kästner took up the predominantly British genre of the school story, taking place in a boarding school, and transferred it to an unmistakably German background. The story covers the last few days of term before Christmas for the students of the Johann-Sigismund Gymnasium. The main characters are Martin, the first student of the class, Jonathan, an orphan who was adopted by a captain, Matz, Uli and Sebastian, students from the Tertia (Year 8). There"
"Castaways of the Flying Dutchman Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is the first novel in the ""Castaways"" series by Brian Jacques and was published in 2001. It is based on the legend of the cursed ship the ""Flying Dutchman"". A young boy, Nebuchadnezzar (later Neb (shortened) and Ben (reversed)), and his dog, Denmark (named after the country in which he was found and later Den (shortened) and Ned (reversed)), are the lone survivors of the ""Flying Dutchman"", fated to wander the earth forever immortal and youthful, helping those who need aid. The second and third books in the series, ""The"
"Flying Jake Flying Jake is a children's picture book by Lane Smith. It was originally published in 1988 by Macmillan Publishing Company and reprinted by Viking Press in 1996. In the wordless story, a boy named Jake takes flight in pursuit of his pet bird, which has flown out of its cage and through a window. ""Flying Jake"" was the first independent work by Smith, who later illustrated ""The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!"" and ""The Stinky Cheese Man"". The book received mixed reviews. In ""The New York Times"", Signe Wilkinson called it ""a rich picture poem that"
"to evade Prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily prevent the police taking action against them. Eventually the heroes and their followers foil an attempted coup by an Islamic military force. The novel includes the poem, ""The Rolling English Road"". The poem was first published under the title ""A Song of Temperance Reform"" in the ""New Witness"" in 1913. The Flying Inn The Flying Inn is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. It is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of ""Progressive"" Islam to dominate the political"
"The Flight of the Phoenix The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. The book was the basis for the 1965 film ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" starring James Stewart and the 2004 remake entitled ""Flight of the Phoenix"". ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" came at the midpoint of Trevor's career and led to a bidding war over its film rights. Pilot Frank Towns and navigator Lew Moran are ferrying a mixed bag"
"Flight of the Doves Flight of the Doves is a 1971 British film based on the novel by Irish writer Walter Macken, the film was written by Frank Gabrielson and Ralph Nelson. Nelson also directed the film. Two Liverpool children (Londoners in the original book) set out in search of love after many years of receiving abuse from their Uncle Tobias Cromwell (Uncle Toby - His surname in the book is Morgan). Cromwell is not a blood relation to the Dove children; their mother had married Cromwell after their birth, and he was granted custody after her death. Finn Dove"
"manuscript for publication. Norstedts commissioned Steve Murray under the pen-name of Reg Keeland to undertake the English translation. Alfred A. Knopf bought the rights to the book, along with the preceding two volumes in the series, after Larsson's death in 2004. ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" was published with a first print-run of 800,000 copies. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (original title in , literally, ""the air castle that was blown up"") is the third novel in the best-selling ""Millennium"" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published"
"The Flying Mountain The Flying Mountain () is 2006 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr. It tells the story of two brothers who travel from Ireland to Transhimalaya to climb a yet unclimbed mountain. The text uses line breaks and is close to blank verse. An English translation of the book by Simon Pare was published by Seagull Books in 2018. The book was longlisted for The Man Booker International Prize on March 12, 2018. Ludger Lütkehaus of ""Die Zeit"" wrote that the book sometimes borders on kitsch, but ""also reminds us of the fact that great literature often"
"Flight Behavior Flight Behavior is a 2012 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It is her seventh novel, is a New York Times Bestseller, and was declared ""Best book of the year"" by the ""Washington Post"" and ""USA Today"". Dellarobia Turnbow is a 28-year-old discontented housewife living with her poor family on a farm in rural Tennessee. On a hike, on which she is planning to meet a telephone repairman to begin an affair with him, the heroine finds that the valley behind their house is covered in millions of monarch butterflies. As the news of her discovery spreads, she receives a"
"Wandering Star (novel) Wandering Star (original title: Étoile errante) is a novel by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. The novel tells the story of two teenage girls on the threshold and in the aftermath of World War II. Esther, a French Jew who flees for Jerusalem with her mother just after Italy's occupation of a small section of south-east France ended during World War II; and Nejma, a young Arab orphaned and unable to return to the ancient city of her birth, Akka, after the Israeli declaration of statehood. Esther emigrates to the newborn state of"
"Linda. ""Frankie on the Run."" Toronto, ON: Boardwalk Books (1995). Holeman, Linda. ""Flying to Yellow."" Winnipeg, MB: Turnstone Press (1996). Holeman, Linda. ""Promise Song."" Toronto, ON: Tundra Books (1997). Holeman, Linda. ""Mercy’s Birds."" Toronto, ON: Tundra Books (1998). Holeman, Linda. ""Devil’s Darning Needle."" Erin, ON: The Porcupine’s Quill (1999). Holeman, Linda. ""Raspberry House Blues."" Toronto, ON: Tundra Books (2000). Holeman, Linda. ""Search of the Moon King’s Daughter."" Toronto, ON: Tundra Books (2002). Holeman, Linda. ""The Linnet Bird."" London, England: Headline Publishers (2004). Holeman, Linda. ""The Moonlit Cage."" London, England: Headline Publishers (2006). Holeman, Linda. ""In a Far Country."" London, England:"
"The Flying Sorcerers The Flying Sorcerers is a humorous 1971 science fiction novel by American writers David Gerrold and Larry Niven. It was originally serialized in 1970 as ""The Misspelled Magishun"" in ""If"" magazine. The book is about the efforts of a stranded astronaut to escape from a primitive world, showing how sufficiently advanced technology could be perceived as magic by its natives. The plot concerns the efforts of an astronaut and geologist/anthropologist, known to the natives as ""Purple"", to escape from a primitive world on which he is stranded and return to his people. The events are seen from"
"The Flight of the Wild Gander The Flight of the Wild Gander is a 1969 book by mythologist Joseph Campbell, in which he collects a number of his early essays and forwards. Essays include ""Bios and Mythos"" (on the psycho-biological sources of mythic forms and symbols), ""Mythogenesis"" (on the rise and fall of a single Native American legend) and ""The Symbol without Meaning"" (about the secularization of myths in the modern age). The ""wild gander"" of the title is a reference to the Hindu concept of the paramahamsa, a great spiritual teacher of exalted illumination, able to transcend the mundane,"
"wife and daughters of a Baptist missionary on a Christian mission in Africa. Although the setting of the novel is somewhat similar to Kingsolver's own childhood trip to the then Republic of Congo, the novel is not autobiographical. Her next novel, published in 2000, was ""Prodigal Summer"", set in southern Appalachia. ""The Lacuna"" was published in 2009; her most recent novel, entitled ""Flight Behavior"", was published in 2012. It explores environmental themes and highlights the potential effects of global warming on the monarch butterfly. Kingsolver is also a published poet and essayist. Two of her essay collections, ""High Tide in"
"Flyy Girl Flyy Girl is young adult/new adult literature and an urban fiction book written by Omar Tyree. The book was originally published by Mars Productions in 1993 and republished by Simon & Schuster for adults in 1996. The novel is regarded to be the genesis of the modern urban-fiction/street-lit movement that would later gain momentum in 1999 with the publication of Sister Souljah's ""The Coldest Winter Ever"". An African-American coming-of-age story that follows Tracy Ellison from her sixth-birthday party in 1977 to her 17th birthday. Tracy grows up in the middle-class Philadelphia suburb of Germantown. The daughter of a"
"The Shipping News The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize, the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001. The story centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York, whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland. Shortly after his parents' joint suicide, Quoyle's unfaithful and abusive wife Petal Bear leaves town with a lover and attempts to sell their daughters Bunny and Sunshine to sex"
"Birdie, Fly Away"", she was referring to Ruth as the bird, able to move so swiftly and easily, while she referred to herself as the handicapped bird who deserved to be sacrificed and killed. This foreshadowed her death. The trade paper edition, published in February, 1998, was on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list for over 100 weeks (2 years), won the 1997 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Literary Excellence, was an ALA Notable Book of the Year, The New York Women's Agenda's first book for ""New York City Reads Together"" and has sold more than 1.5 million copies. It has"
"The Runaway Bunny The Runaway Bunny is a 1942 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. The plot deals with a small rabbit, who wants to run away. His mother, however, tells him that ""if you run away, I will run after you."" This book is the first in Brown and Hurd's ""classic series,"" which also includes ""Goodnight Moon"" and ""My World"". The picture of a cow jumping over the moon, which features prominently in ""Goodnight Moon"", first appeared in ""The Runaway Bunny"". A copy of ""The Runaway Bunny"" appears in ""Goodnight Moon"", as does"